Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

❗🇺🇲🇺🇦 The White House has announced Presidential Drawdown Authority package #62, worth $200 million. Kirby had announced a briefing call earlier this morning that it includes air defense missiles, ammo for HIMARS, artillery ammo, and anti-tank missiles.

Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

🚨 Pentagon has announced that a $1.5 billion USAI package is also being committed today. They don't have separate line items for each package though which is annoying. Contents are the usual list of ammunition, nothing unexpected. "Short and medium range air defense munitions" is new nomenclature but based on the new fact sheet does not seem to refer to anything that hasn't been provided already. https://twitter.com/ColbyBadhwar/status/1817951148797534398#m

The Lookout (Twitter)

RT @Tatarigami_UA: In today's speech, Zelensky, after talking to Commander in Chief General Syrskyi, reported that Ukraine has the strength to achieve its goals. While he is correct that Ukraine has the strengths and resources to take the worsening situation under control, the situation in the Pokrovsk direction remains critical, and some areas of defense have started to collapse.

Feedback from officers and soldiers on the ground, the rapid progress of Russian forces, and the unacceptable attitude towards regular soldiers from higher command indicate that the situation is not "under control." It is not a total disaster only due to the actions of people on the ground who are trying their best to prevent advances and showing examples of individual heroism and leadership.

Of course, deliveries of F-16s, permission to strike deeper into Russia, and supplements of vehicles would have helped the situation, but resources alone can't fix the problem of continuous command mistakes, including unrealistic tasks disproportionate to available human resources, combined with demands to retake lost positions.

Unsurprisingly, for the past few months, following the events in Kharkiv, there have been circulating rumors about the administration's dissatisfaction with Syrskyi and his potential replacement. The decision to remove the 80th Brigade commander, followed by the public demand from the officers of the 80th Brigade to reinstate the commander, might accelerate this process. That being said, while Syrskyi might be responsible for many problems on the frontline, he is also executing the vision and will of the President in many cases, and it was his decision to appoint him.

My team has been working on a comprehensive update on that area, but the Russians have progressed so quickly multiple times that we had to postpone the report to include the latest updates, redo the maps, and add new details. Hopefully, tomorrow we will be able to address most of the questions regarding the situation in the Pokrovsk direction and cover the problematic situation

The Lookout (Twitter)

@PaxLusitanica: Going by the AIS data this one is another Vladimir Rusanov, built in 1994.

The LNG tanker is Hong Kong flagged and currently somewhere on the Northeast Passage.

Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (Twitter)

The USA announces additional security assistance for Ukraine. This includes the authorization of a Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA) package valued at up to $200 million, as well as $1.5 billion in Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI) funds.

https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3852671/biden-administration-announces-additional-security-assistance-for-ukraine/

Necro Mancer (Twitter)

Некий боец Кочиев Артур Борисович срывает покровы с командира #429мсп Пилагина и его жены (не забудьте послушать 2ю часть). Интересно, сколько он после этого ещё проживёт?
t.me/arzu_of/3867 #всрф #Пилагин

Necro Mancer (Twitter)

Мотоцид
t.me/mechanized33/223 #RussianUkrainianWar

Necro Mancer (Twitter)

@tomdiskein: Если за рулём был ведущий канала, то и не надо

IgorGirkin (Twitter)

Here we go

IgorGirkin (Twitter)

RT @DefenceU: Great news from the USA 🇺🇦🤝🇺🇸
@DeptofDefense announced a new military aid package valued at $200 million.

This Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA) package includes:
◾️Ammunition for HIMARS
◾️Munitions for NASAMS
◾️Short- and medium-range air defense munitions
◾️RIM-7 missiles for air defense
◾️Electronic Warfare equipment
◾️155mm and 105mm artillery rounds
◾️120mm mortar rounds
◾️Precision aerial munitions
◾️TOW missiles
◾️Javelin and AT-4 anti-armor systems
◾️Small arms
◾️Explosives material and demolitions equipment and munitions
◾️Secure communications systems
◾️Commercial satellite imagery services
◾️Spare parts, maintenance and sustainment support, and other ancillary equipment

We are grateful to our American partners for their leadership and staunch support. Together, we will win!

Danvan (Twitter)

RT @marybezuhla: Про «видовий шовінізм» або що робить зараз з десантно-штурмовими військами (ДШВ) фракція сухопутних генералів на чолі з Головнокомандувачем ЗСУ Сирським, і чому це послаблення з подальшим нівелюванням найефективнішого роду військ.

Вирішила написати зараз, як у військах шириться інформація про підготовку до зняття командира 80-ї бригади ДШВ Ішкулова, одного з найбільш авторитетних керівників в ЗСУ. Знімають його через незгоду з нереалістичними завданнями Сирського. Але це не все: аби зломити та інтегрувати ДШВ в піхоту, зараз Сирський робить наступне:

- Керівний склад бригад виводять із колективів і відправляють поодинці в сухопутні бригади, порушуючи сталість команд та ламаючи волю.
- Корпус ДШВ перейменували на корпус швидкого реагування та підпорядкували напряму Сирському, щоб далі перевести в сухопутні війська.
- При суттєвому покращенні мобілізації адекватного укомплектування частин ДШВ не ...

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Rob Lee (Twitter)

@mpdimino: I think some officials in Kyiv did suggest they would be game changers but many others never thought. Neither Syrsky nor Zaluzhny seem to have thought they would provide a decisive advantage.

‌Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

@ColbyBadhwar: The USMC is paying ~$230,000 per Tamir missile, and it's unclear if those orders will even be fulfilled. Sidewinder has averaged ~$400,000, and AMRAAM ~$1-1.2 million.

Until SkyHunter is in production (FRP too, not just LRIP), it's not a real option.

Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

🇺🇲🇳🇱 Foreign Military Sales Letter of Offer & Acceptance has been signed. Contract value not disclosed.

https://news.lockheedmartin.com/2024-07-29-us-and-netherlands-sign-agreement-for-jassm-er-missiles https://twitter.com/ColbyBadhwar/status/1754612348076150904#m

Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

@DrBrainMD: They have to be procured. That can be things that are off the shelf but most of the time they are not.

Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

RT @FRHoffmann1: In every conference I've attended in recent months, both civilian and military, one sentence keeps coming up: "Shoot the archer, not the arrow."

Everyone knows what Ukraine needs to defend its skies, yet nothing is being done to make it happen.

Maddening. https://twitter.com/ColbyBadhwar/status/1817907976369529328#m

Necro Mancer (Twitter)

Граждане, ну что вы суетитесь? Ложитесь уже, да помирайте
t.me/aerobomber_ua/319 #RussianUkrainianWar